Green Onions · T Booker

72 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:03 of playing, on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:03
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 13-23 and 25-35, and 3 more places -- 91.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
GREEN ONIONS · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars: 36 keep time and 36 are stops.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Green Onions?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Green Onions hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:03 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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